Ok, so I'm rejecting it.
** Changed in: Ubuntu
Status: Needs Info => Rejected
** Changed in: Ubuntu
Assignee: didier => (unassigned)
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mount allows ext3 filesystem to be mounted as vfat
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109232
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hi
it worked! of course i had a working backup of the first sector so I believe
I was safe. now it does NOT mount with vfat and ext3 works fine.
thanks and sorry for the trouble.
phansi
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mount allows ext3 filesystem to be mounted as vfat
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109232
You received
>
> that hardisk had a vfat partition before -- formatted using
> mkfs.ext3 (or mkfs.ext2 and then converted -- the disk is at least three years
> in its present form so i do not recall, but it was definitely one of those
> two)
Hmm, at least current mkfs.ext2/3 zero it.
>
> - and yes, looking at
first sector of /dev/sdb1
** Attachment added: "firstsector"
http://librarian.launchpad.net/7391879/firstsector
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mount allows ext3 filesystem to be mounted as vfat
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109232
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is the
hi
that hardisk had a vfat partition before -- formatted using
mkfs.ext3 (or mkfs.ext2 and then converted -- the disk is at least three years
in its present form so i do not recall, but it was definitely one of those two)
- and yes, looking at the first few bytes of it looks as if those vfat
byte
Hi,
If you're adventurous you can mount it read only...
Can you attach the file created by:
dd if=/dev/sdb1 count=1 of=/tmp/firstsector
Was your drive a vfat one before? If yes how did you reformat it?
IIRC the first 8KB of an ext2/3 fs are 0 but Linux fs code doesn't care
if not, so it's possi
